Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
To be honest, I'm simply amazed it's taken America this long to work out that the Apu stereotype is a touch problematic.

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.
See also the brown fella in Big Bang Theory. On the plus side, it mean Mind Your Language is gently pushed under the carpet as it it never happened